List of Famous people born in Zaporizhzhya Oblast, Ukraine

Yevgeny Vitalyevich Balitsky is a Ukrainian and Russian politician and entrepreneur currently serving as the Russian-installed Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast since 9 May 2022. Balitsky previously served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 7th and 8th convocations of the Verkhovna Rada, as well as a member of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Council.

Valery Babich is a Ukrainian writer, ethnographer and journalist. Until 1991 was an engineer shipbuilder, head of the design bureau at Department of chief designer of Black Sea Shipyard in Mykolaiv on aircraft carriers and S.U. ground complex testing of naval aviation in Crimea.

Oleksandr Olehovych Kunytskyi — is an Israeli and Ukrainian blogger, private entrepreneur, and politician. He is People's Deputy of Ukraine of 9th convocation as a member of Servant of the People party. He is also known as ZP Sanek. He used this nickname during the election.

Polina Denisovna Osipenko was a Soviet military pilot, most notable as the co-pilot who, together with Valentina Grizodubova and Marina Raskova on September 24–25, 1938 performed a non-stop flight between Moscow and the Sea of Okhotsk, setting a new distance record for non-stop flights operated by women. For this achievement, she and her two colleagues were named Hero of the Soviet Union, the first three women to receive highest military distinction in Soviet Union on 2 November 1938.

Serhiy Vladyslavovych Sobolev is a Ukrainian politician. He is a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) and acting Batkivshchyna faction leader.

Ivan Hryhorovych Kyrylenko is a Ukrainian politician and from 2007 till December 2011 faction leader of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament.